Gloves off in historic District Seven San Jose City Council run-off race

That's what the San Jose Mercury News says about the historic race between two Vietnamese-Americans, Linda Nguyen (left in photo) and Madison Nguyen, seeking the District 7 seat on the City Council. They are playing hardball politics in a kind rarely seen at the municipal level. But then it shows very clearly that San Jose's Vietnamese community, the largest of any city outside Vietnam, is not monolithic. Quite the contrary. This is a community made of of people still fighting the war and those who would like to move on.

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